ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] That is contained in a cyst or sac. Encysted tumor: a tumor consisting of a fluid or other substance enclosed in a cyst. Also fig.

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1705.  T. Greenhill, in Phil. Trans., XXV. 2010. I … found it to be of that sort of Wens or encisted Tumors called Atheroma.

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1782.  S. F. Simmons, in Med. Commun., I. 102. The dropsy was supposed to be of the encysted kind.

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1824.  Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 256. The encysted venom, or poison-bag, beneath the adder’s fang.

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1861.  O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., 222. Encysted griefs, if we may borrow the chirurgeon’s term.

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